1873 in France

"See also:"
1872 in France,
other events of 1873,
1874 in France.

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Events from the year 1873 in France.

Events

*16 September - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.
*21 December - Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.

Births

*2 January - Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, canonised as a saint (d.1897).
*28 January - Colette, writer (d.1954).
*2 February - Maurice Tourneur, film director and screenwriter (d.1961).
*19 February - Louis Feuillade, film director (d.1925).
*17 May - Henri Barbusse, novelist, journalist and communist (d.1935).
*28 June - Alexis Carrel, surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1944).
*1 July - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer filmmaker, first female film director (d.1968).
*4 August - Joseph Paul-Boncour, politician (d.1972).
*25 November - Pierre Lacau, Egyptologist and philologist (d.1963).

Full date unknown

*Alice Pruvot-Fol, malacologist (d.1972).

Deaths

*9 January - Napoleon III of France, first President of the French Republic and only emperor of the Second French Empire (b.1808).
*1 April - Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters (b.1801).
*16 April - Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, poet (b.1839).
*4 May - Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Admiral (b.1807).
*18 July - Philarète Chasles, critic and man of letters (b.1798).
*8 August - Antoine Chintreuil, painter (b.1814).
*7 September - Jules Verreaux, botanist and ornithologist (b.1807).
*23 September - Jean Chacornac, astronomer (b.1823).

Full date unknown

*Eugène Flachat, civil engineer (b.1802).
*Louis Gustave Ricard, painter (b.1823).

References